Politics & Voting in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania

The Political Climate in Burgettstown, PA is Leaning conservative.

Washington County, PA is Somewhat conservative. In Washington County, PA 35.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 60.0% voted Republican, and the remaining 4.5% voted Independent.

Washington county voted Republican in the last three Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in 2000 and 2004. In the last Presidential election, Washington county remained strongly Republican, 60.0% to 35.5%

The BestPlaces Liberal/Conservative Index

Burgettstown, PA is Leaning conservative

Washington County, Pennsylvania is Somewhat conservative.

Pittsburgh Metro Area is Leaning liberal.

Pennsylvania is Leaning conservative.

The BestPlaces Liberal/Conservative Index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.

VoteWord™

Displaying 16 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.

Burgettstown, Pennsylvania: d d r R R

How It Works: Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican candidate won, D for the Democrat and I for the Independent. The five elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016) would be expressed as five-letter word (R R D R R).

Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.

Here’s the VoteWord for Iowa – d r d d r. In the last five elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican candidate in 2016 after voting Democratic in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d) has voted narrowly Democratic in the last three elections.

Individual Campaign Contributions in Burgettstown, PA

In the last 4 years (2015-2018), there were 254 contributions totaling $20,638 to Democratic and liberal campaigns, averaging $81 per contribution.

In the last 4 years, there were 49 contributions totaling $22,218 to Republican and conservative campaigns, averaging $453 per contribution.